Star Trek as Myth: Essays on Symbol and Archetype at the by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell

By Matthew Wilhelm Kapell

long ago, the exam of delusion has characteristically been the examine of the “Primitive” or the “Other.” extra lately, fantasy has been more and more hired in video clips and in tv productions. Nowhere is that this extra obvious than within the Star Trek tv and film franchise. This number of essays on Star Trek brings jointly views from students in fields together with movie, anthropology, heritage, American reviews and biblical scholarship. jointly the essays learn the symbolism, non secular implications, heroic and gender archetypes, and lasting results of the Star Trek “mythscape.”

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